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Email this StoryUtah Supreme Court hears Warren Jeffs appeal
Posted - 11/3/2009 at 2:46PM
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Attorneys for imprisoned polygamous church leader Warren Jeffs have argued before the Utah Supreme Court that his 2007 criminal conviction should be overturned.
The head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Jeffs was convicted of two counts of first-degree felony rape as an accomplice for his role in the 2001 marriage of a 14-year-old follower to her 19-year-old cousin.
The 53-year-old Jeffs is serving two consecutive prison terms of five years to life.
Attorneys for the state of Utah and Jeffs' attorneys appeared Tuesday before the high court.
It is unclear when the court will issue a ruling in the case.
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